Why do you need to load balance ? Here i will put forward the various options available for web load balancing. Before we go into that , let us first examine why do we need load balancing after all.Consider you develop a website and is available to the public.If the application is served from a single webserver then there is a high chance that the machine will be overwhelmed if the usage of the application increases. This may result in users experiancing unusually high response times or in worse case the machine can come to a halt.So you need some mechanism to distribute the load across different machines,without the client having to swich address. There are many widely used approaches. The most common ones are DNS based load balancing Software load balancing Hardware load balancing DNS based Load Balancing Here the DNS server is configured in such a way that it returns different IP addresses for various requests to the DNS server for a particular domain name. The DNS server may contai...
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